Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo | |
First report of rabies in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) in an urban area, Ubatuba, São Paulo state, Brazil | |
Claudia Ferraz2  Samira Maria Achkar1  Ivanete Kotait1  | |
[1] ,Ubatuba Zoonosis Control CenterSão Paulo,Brazil | |
关键词: Hematophagous bat; Rabies; Urban area; São Paulo; | |
DOI : 10.1590/S0036-46652007000600010 | |
来源: SciELO | |
【 摘 要 】
The purpose of this report is to record the first case of a hematophagous bat (Desmodus rotundus) infected with rabies virus in an urban area in Brazil. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first such case in Latin America. After discovering a bat in his garden at 10 o'clock in the morning, a resident of Ubatuba municipality asked the Zoonosis Control Center team to visit his home. The animal was caught alive on the same day and sent to the Pasteur Institute laboratory, where it was identified as a Desmodus rotundus specimen. Standard tests for rabies diagnosis were carried out (direct immunofluorescence and viral isolation), and the results were positive. The presence of different species of (primarily insectivorous) bats in urban areas represents a serious public health problem. This case, however, is indicative of a much greater risk because the species in question has hematophagous habits, what means this animals has a low energy reserves and, therefore, its need to feed daily.
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